Proverbs 27:10-27

¹⁰Forsake thou not thy friend, and the friend of thy father; and enter thou not into the house of thy brother, in the day of thy torment. Better is a neighbour nigh, than a brother afar.

¹¹My son, study thou about wisdom, and make thou glad mine heart; that thou mayest answer a word to a despiser.

¹²A fell man seeing evil was hid; little men of wit passing forth suffered harms.

¹³Take thou away his cloth, that promised for a stranger; and take thou away a wed from him for an alien man.

¹⁴He that blesseth his neighbour with a great voice; and riseth by night, shall be like him that curseth.

¹⁵Roofs dropping in the day of cold, and a woman full of chiding, be likened together.

¹⁶He that withholdeth her, as if he holdeth or held the wind; and voideth out the oil of his right hand.

¹⁷Iron is whetted by iron; and a man whetteth the face of his friend.

¹⁸He that keepeth a fig tree, shall eat the fruits thereof; and he that is a keeper of his lord, shall be glorified.

¹⁹As the cheers of men beholding themselves shine in waters; so the hearts of men be open to prudent men.

²⁰Hell and perdition shall not be filled; so and the eyes of men be not able to be filled or be unfillable.

²¹As silver is proved in a welling place, and gold is proved in a furnace; so a man is proved by the mouth of his praisers.

²²Though thou poundedest a fool in a mortar, as with a pestle smiting above dried barley, his folly shall not be done away from him.

²³Know thou diligently the cheer of thy beast; and behold thou thy flocks.

²⁴For thou shalt not have power continually; but a crown shall be given to thee in generation and into generations.

²⁵Meadows be opened, and green herbs appeared; and hay is gathered from the hills.

²⁶Lambs be to thy clothing; and kids be to the price of the field.

²⁷The milk of goats suffice to thee for thy meats; into the necessary things of thine house, and to lifelode of thine handmaidens.